Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 337: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of additional permanent teachers appointed to secondary schools here during the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12945/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to advise the Deputy that significant improvements have been made in the staffing levels of our second level schools in recent years. In the period between the 2001/2002 and 2007/2008 school years, there were approximately twelve hundred additional wholetime equivalent teaching posts allocated to second level schools.

The number of permanent teaching posts available in individual schools at any one time is determined in accordance with the agreed criteria relating to the application of the pupil teacher ratio. It is a matter for the individual school authority, as employer, to determine whether any particular post when vacated may be filled on a permanent basis.